Sunday, November 15, 2009

New Updates In Testing

It's been a long time since first launching the initial beta of Local Sing. Since then I've had the opportunity to add a number of great new features, but mostly, it has been motivating and inspiring to see the feedback coming in from our users.

The latest round of updates are expected to go live this week as we finish testing to ensure that the transition from our development server to our live server will be smooth.

What to expect in this weeks update:

  1. Simplified Song List Uploads. No more need to process your songs. This will be done automatically, and your entire list is searchable right from the get go.
  2. Improved User Search. Users can now create playlists of songs and see nights that have the songs they want. Numerous improvements to the way we display our google maps results.
  3. Sorting by distance. Yes, it's a no-brainer feature, but it missed the initial beta release.
  4. Password Recovery. Again, just something that missed the first release.
  5. Too many bug fixes and small features to mention.
The future will be interesting. Barring any huge problems with this release, it is my hope that this will be a fully usable and stable version of the site, but just to be sure, the patches are now going to come on a weekly basis. We will add small features, improve usability and patch and bugs every Sunday night. So keep that feedback coming!